WASHINGTON — A temporary injunction that has kept public schools from having to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms according to their gender identity will stay in place, according to The Christian Post.
On Feb. 10 the Department of Justice under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions negated a request from the Obama administration to limit the injunction to apply only to the 13 states that challenged the new public school rules.
The Justice Department’s move will not have any immediate effect, as the federal judge’s injunction from 2016 already blocked the rules nationwide, but it did remove the previous administration’s challenge to the ruling.
But in a contrasting move, President Donald Trump recently renewed the former president’s executive order prohibiting federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation, the Post reported.
The White House released a statement that said Trump “is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election. The executive order signed in 2014, which protects employees from anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination while working for federal contractors, will remain intact at the direction of President Donald J. Trump.”
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